Metropolis is divided into six boroughs, and occupies three islands and areas along the coasts of the Hobbs’ and West Rivers. On islands are the boroughs of New Troy, St. Martin’s Island, and Hell’s Gate. On the riverbank is Queensland Park along the West River to the south, and on Hob’s River to the north are Park Ridge and Bakerline.
The Six Boroughs
Bakerline
Bakerline is primarily a middle-class housing community and is the home of the Olsen family.
Neighborhoods in Bakerline
Lafayette
Oaktown
Hell’s Gate
Information coming soon.
Hell’s Gate and Queenland Park are home to the city’s growing immigrant population.
New Troy
New Troy is located in the heart of the city. It represents the hub of Metropolis’ central business district. New Troy is the largest borough in Metropolis consisting of a skyscraper island bustling with commerce and business.
The Daily Planet Building is the most recognizable landmark in the Metropolis skyline. Located in “Planet Square,” it is particularly known for the Daily Planet globe atop the building. Other prominent skyscrapers include the Emperor Building , the Newstime Building (home of the national Newstime magazine, and LexCorp Tower, headquarters for Lex Luthor’s company.
Besides the Financial District, notable areas of New Troy include Chinatown, Little Bohemia (the arts capital of Metropolis), and Glenmorgan Square.
New Troy Neighborhoods
Hypersector
The business and financial center of Metropolis. Most if not all of the real estate is owned by LexCorp.
Suicide Slum (formerly known as Hob’s Bay)
Originally known as Hob’s Bay, named after Elias Hob; an early Metropolis landowner, the area had been a prosperous, middle-class neighborhood at the turn of the twentieth century. With the beginning of the Great Depression, residents were encouraged to invest in Comet Arena, touted as a sports venue that “would bring fifty thousand people to the area every week of the year.” Instead, the developer disappeared with the contributed donations earmarked for the complex and the area began a descent into poverty and decay from which it never recovered. Now only City Hall and the chamber of commerce refer to the neighborhood as “Hob’s Bay”. To the rest of Metropolis, it is Suicide Slums.
Today, Suicide Slum, is a neighborhood that has been known to have a much higher rate of crime than the rest of the city. It is a down market area that many who cannot afford the apartments and penthouses of the main city live, the property prices of the Slums being lower due to the corruption.
The downtrodden end of Metropolis, Suicide Slums contains the Steelworks; factory of various technologies and the Ace o’ Clubs; a public watering-hole for information.
Suicide Slum was reputed as a lost cause that many Metropolis residents believe not even Superman can do anything about.
Park Ridge
Park Ridge and its subdivisions are Metropolis’s oldest suburbs.
Queensland Park
Queensland Park is primarily a suburban community consisting of single-family homes and brownstones. It is bordered by the West River to the north, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the east. The Eastern district is a neighborhood known as “Old City”, and was established as a Dutch settlement in 1634 by explorer Paul De Vries.
At the time, the settlement was known as De Vries Village but changed its name to Elizabethtown in the 1700s during British occupation. At this time, Queensland Park grew into a thriving seaport community with a central railroad network branching out to the surrounding areas. During the Revolutionary War, an American patriot from North Bridge named Peter Vernon destroyed the British navy’s access to New Troy, thus delaying their advance to the mainland. The Vernon Memorial Park was erected commemorating the event. After the war, Elizabethtown changed its name to Old City.
Queensland Park was the location of the original Daily Planet printing plant. More recently Hell’s Gate and Queenland Park are home to the city’s growing immigrant population.
Neighborhoods in Queensland Park
Mount Royal
New Town
St. Martins Island
St. Martin’s Island is separated from the greater Metropolitan area, it is located in Metropolis Bay southeast of Bakerline and slightly northeast of New Troy. St. Martin’s Island caters to the wealthiest of the city’s denizens, with elaborate art deco homes and upper class neighborhoods.